Leaders SC Magdeburg narrowly avoided their first defeat of the season in the German Handball League. The team from the Elbe city won 32:31 (17:16) at VfL Gummersbach. Magdeburg's top scorer was Omar Ingi Magnusson with eleven goals.
The SCM missed a number of shots in the opening minutes, but then turned the game in its favor for the first time with three goals in forty seconds (3:1/6). Inaccuracies became more frequent overall. Gummersbach equalized, but Magdeburg pulled two goals ahead again. Gummersbach also had an answer to that and so the league leaders went into the break just one goal ahead.